Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
BARBARA JORDANIf you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance — the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
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But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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When do any of us ever do enough?
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Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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